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Users across all Wikimedia projects
by Piscopo A. 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Hello everyone, I would like to carry out a study about how users work across different projects in the Wikimedia ecosystem. I can’t find any dataset containing all usernames and user ids across all the projects, or at least those with a global account. I’ve tried with quarry, but the query to get all the data from it is too big and is not really a solution. Can anybody point me to some resource I can download and process myself, e.g. a global account user dataset, or the whole user database table that can be queried in quarry? Thanks, Alessandro ––– Alessandro Piscopo Web and Internet Science Group School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton email: A.Piscopo(a)soton.ac.uk<mailto:A.Piscopo@soton.ac.uk>

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Wiki-Sul
by Felipe da Fonseca 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

Dear Wikimedians, I am working as an ambassador at UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina) in Brazil. At UFSC we are developing projects with the department of History for development articles,[1] <#_ftn1> with the museum at UFSC[2] <#_ftn2> and we are trying to start projects with the UFSC museum. In addition, we will also organize this year's congress in the area of Wikipedia and Education, and the congress will also work as a catalyzer for the organization of a group of users (not recognized) in the south of Brazil called Wiki-Sul. I write to ask for help because we intend to establish a research group on Wikipedia in the area of Human Sciences, we would like to know what the current state of the art, so ask for opinion and research ideas. When we talk about research on Wikipedia we refer to the formation of a meta-discourse, exploring questions of reliability, notoriety, acceptability, pedagogical use, etc. Best, Felipe https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio:Felipe_da_Fonseca ------------------------------ [1] <#_ftnref1> https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Outreach_Dashboard/UFSC/Teoria… http://nepemi.sites.ufsc.br/projeto-teoria-da-historia-na-wikipedia/ https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikisul_/programs [2] <#_ftnref2> http://portal.bu.ufsc.br/conheca-a-bu/comissoes-de-trabalho/fake-news/

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] MultiContent Revisions and changes to the XML dumps
by Pine W 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

Forwarding in case this is of interest to people on the Analytics or Research lists who don't subscribe to Wikitech-l or Xmldatadumps-l. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 2:40 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] MultiContent Revisions and changes to the XML dumps To: Wikipedia Xmldatadumps-l <Xmldatadumps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> As many of you may know, MultiContent Revisions are coming soon (October?) to a wiki near you. This means that we need changes to the XML dumps schema; these changes will likely NOT be backwards compatible. Initial discussion will take place here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199121 For background on MultiContent Revisions and their use on e.g. Commons or WikiData, see: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200903 (Commons media medata) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194729 (Wikidata entites) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Multi-Content_Revisions (MCR generally) There may be other, better tickets/pages for background; feel free to supplement this list if you have such links. Ariel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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SEMANTiCS 2018, Vienna, Sep 10-13, Contribute to the Vocarnival & the DBpedia Day
by Sebastian Hellmann 02 Aug '18

02 Aug '18

*# Vocarnival* The Vocabulary Carnival (Vocarnival) at SEMANTiCS 2018 is a unique opportunity for vocabulary publishers to showcase and share their work, meet the growing community of vocabulary publishers and users, and build useful semantic, technical and social links. The Vocarnival forms part of the SEMANTiCS programme with the Carnival Minute Madness and the marketplace. *Which are the expected vocabulary types? * All types! A very wide vocabulary definition applies to this competition, including ontologies, classifications, thesauri, concept and metadata schemes, independently of their format, be it RDF or not. *When is the submission deadline?* The submission deadline is set for September 3, 2018, 23:30 CET time. Get familiar with the technical requirements and the presentation format for your vocabulary submission. Afterwards, follow the steps below and get honored by a special prize if you have one of the best three posters. The winners will be announced during the respective Vocarnival Session at SEMANTiCS 2018. Please find all information here: _https://2018.semantics.cc/vocabulary-carnival_ *How to submit your Vocabulary to the Carnival? * *Step 1:*Make sure your vocabulary is accessible on the Web via a public URI. *Step 2:*Submit your vocabulary here: _https://2018.semantics.cc/submit-vocabulary-vocarnival_ *Step 3:*Register to SEMANTiCS 2018: _https://2018.semantics.cc/prices_ *Step 4:*Every poster will be presented in our exhibition area. The organising committee will select the best vocabulary poster and presentation for the awards. *# DBpedia Day - Call for Participation* At the beginning of SEMANTiCS 2018, the DBpedia Community will get together on the**10th of September for the DBpedia Day. Besides the following highlights, we want you to be a part of the day by telling us what cool things you do with DBpedia. Submit your proposal in our form: _https://goo.gl/forms/ngRWCjgH9ocDCrEb2_! *Highlights* - Keynote #1: Dealing with Open Domain Data by Mathieu d’Aquin (NUI Galway) - Keynote #2: Linked Open Data cloud - act now before it’s too late by Javier Fernández García (WU Wien) - DBpedia Association hour - DBpedia Chapter Session *Important Facts* - Web URL: _http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Vienna2018_ - When: September 10th, 2018 - Where: Gußhaus Campus of Vienna's Technical University, Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria - Call for Contribution: Submit your proposal in our form _https://goo.gl/forms/ngRWCjgH9ocDCrEb2_ - Attending the DBpedia Community Meeting costs €50 (excl. registration fee and VAT). DBpedia members get free admission, please contact your nearest DBpedia chapter or the _DBpedia Association_ <mailto:holze@infai.org>for a promotion code. /We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the SEMANTiCS in Vienna! /

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Fwd: Job(s): Project Manager & Senior Dev, in Blockchain + Commons Research Project @Madrid
by Samer 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

FYI: *We want to build a new type of Collaborative Economy organizations, which are decentralized, democratic and economically sustainable. Would you like to join us? P2P Models <http://p2pmodels.eu>, a 5-year 1.5M€ research project, is hiring: - a Project/Communication Manager - a Senior Blockchain DeveloperThey will join an interdisciplinary team in Madrid, doing research & building tools with social impacthttps://p2pmodels.eu/jobs/ <https://p2pmodels.eu/jobs/> Tweet thread:https://twitter.com/samerP2P/status/1017822934222692352 <https://twitter.com/samerP2P/status/1017822934222692352> Working at P2P Models is an opportunity to collaborate with people passionate to create social impact, in an environment which mixes academics, hackers, designers and activists. We do research on commons-oriented communities, and build blockchain-driven frameworks and tools to support their sustainability. More info: - Funded by the largest EU individual research grant, the ERC, and the first to build blockchain infrastructure - With Principal Investigator and advisors from Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, such as Yochai Benkler or Primavera De Filippi- Dynamic, young, interdisciplinary team with a horizontal and inclusive culture- Combines social research + software tool building, focusing on social impact- Attractive work conditions and perks, with multiple benefitsFeel free to write any question/doubt to p2pmodels(a)ucm.es <p2pmodels(a)ucm.es> including in the subject “Open position”. The deadline for accepting submissions is September 7.* Samer Hassan | @samerP2P <http://twitter.com/samerP2P> | http://samer.hassan.name Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University Associate Professor, Univ. Complutense de Madrid

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Quarry query
by Kerry Raymond 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

Ignore my request. The penny dropped. I needed the iwlinks table https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/28618 Kerry From: Kerry Raymond [mailto:kerry.raymond@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 30 July 2018 12:53 PM To: 'Research into Wikimedia content and communities' <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Quarry query I'm trying to work out how to link an en.WP article to its commons category using Quarry (the end purpose is create the datasets needed for Wiki Loves Monuments in time for September). I managed to get this far https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/28618 which tells me which Wikipedia articles I need and whether they have a commons category template but it doesn't get me to the actual commons category itself. Now if I look at any of these articles in the browser in the normal way, I can see a link to the Commons category on the left-hand tool bar, but I can't figure out which table in Quarry has this connection. Any pointers to the right table would be a great help. Surely I can't be the first person to want to generate a table of data for WLM using Quarry. Kerry

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Quarry query
by Kerry Raymond 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

I'm trying to work out how to link an en.WP article to its commons category using Quarry (the end purpose is create the datasets needed for Wiki Loves Monuments in time for September). I managed to get this far https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/28618 which tells me which Wikipedia articles I need and whether they have a commons category template but it doesn't get me to the actual commons category itself. Now if I look at any of these articles in the browser in the normal way, I can see a link to the Commons category on the left-hand tool bar, but I can't figure out which table in Quarry has this connection. Any pointers to the right table would be a great help. Surely I can't be the first person to want to generate a table of data for WLM using Quarry. Kerry

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Towards an inclusive digital literacy framework for digital India
by James Salsman 29 Jul '18

29 Jul '18

Of considerable interest: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326141291_Towards_an_inclusive_dig… "Policy makers can use this transformational model to extend the reach and effectiveness of Digital Inclusion through the last mile enhancing existing training and service centers that offer the traditional model of Digital Literacy Education.... This education model can be replicated and scaled by the Digital India program by extending the reach of existing rural Common Service Centers centers to reach remote areas that lack infrastructure, thereby reaching the last mile for a transformative impact across the nation." I was particularly impressed with Figure 4: https://i.imgur.com/s30xY4C.png Best regards, Jim

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"State of Wikimedia Research" presentation at Wikimania 2018
by Pine W 28 Jul '18

28 Jul '18

In case people are interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE2UQu3r6vE The topics covered include: * Media and images * Talk page debates * Comparisons of Wikipedia language editions * Who is not participating? * Wikipedia as a source of data Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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New files for geo coded Wikimedia stats
by Erik Zachte 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

Today I released two new json files [2][4]. Both complement visualization 'Wikipedia Views Visualized' [1] (aka WiViVi), but both can be useful in other contexts as well. 1) File 'demographics_from_world_bank_for_wikimedia.json' [2] resulted from harvesting World Bank API files. It contains yearly figures for four metrics: (more could be added rather easily): - population counts, - percentage internet users, - percentage mobile subscriptions, - GDP per capita. The following static demographics charts on meta are also based on these metrics: [3] 2) File 'datamaps-data.json' [4] contains the equivalent of 3 rather complex (*) csv files which feed WiViVi. This brings together demographics data and pageviews (by country, by region, and by language), and also adds additional meta info. This json file is meant for external use, as it's much easier to parse than the 3 csv files WiViVi uses itself [5]. (*) complex , as the csv files use a hierarchy based on nested delimiters -- Details: World Bank files have different formats (some csv, some json) and use a variety of indexes (some use ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, others ..-alpha-3). Script 1) first does normalization, then data are aggregated, filtered, indexed. Json file 1) replaces two csv files which up to now were filled from Wikipedia pages [6][7]. Also, although Wikipedia lists nowadays also use World Bank data, this is not consistently done, see [8][9]. [1] Viz: https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/wivivi/wivivi.html [2] Json: https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/wivivi/world-bank-demograp… Script: https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-wikistats/tree/master/worldbank [3] Charts: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_Bank_demographics [4] Json: https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/wivivi/datamaps-data.json Script: https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-wikistats/tree/master/traffic [5] Syntax: https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/animations/wivivi/data.html [6] Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_populat… [7] Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users [8] Talk page: https://bit.ly/2L5Z2P4 section 'Wikipedia vs Worldbank population counts' [9] Talk page: https://bit.ly/2NJUoIu section 'Wikipedia vs Worldbank internet percentages'

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